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Celebrating women starts with a single step
Tara Sonenshine, contributor, and Kelu Chao, thehill.comimage fromExcerpt:This is the year of women. In the United States, women are running for president from both political parties. Around the world,...
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Rufftone's second term as envoy
the-star.co.keRufftone and Korean ambassador Chan-woo Kim.BY GRACE KERONGOSeptember 25, 2015 On Monday, Rufftone will be given a letter of appointment from Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of...
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The Public Diplomacy of Pope Francis
Sohaela Amiri, uscpublicdiplomacy.orgimage from articleSep 25, 2015Pope Francis made it to CPD’s list of Top Ten Global Public Diplomacy Actors in 2013 and 2014. He’s also expected to make the list...
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Community, Culture and Public Diplomacy
uscpublicdiplomacy.orgSep 25, 2015This week in public diplomacy, news headlines revealed how nation states and NGOs utilize cultural diplomacy to strengthen ties with foreign publics. From music...
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Does foreign aid really do good?
washingtonexaminer.com [no specific author cited]Image from article, with caption: Afghan refugees rush for blankets during a relief distribution in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008....
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Shortwave broadcasting and QSL cards
Gary Rawnsley, wwwpdic.blogspot.co.uk; via GR on FcebookImage from entry, with caption The Voice of America, February 1987: Top: 'The White House on a wintry evening in Washington DC. US Presidents and...
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Fighting the Information War
Philip Seib, huffingtonpost.comimage fromInformation has always been part of conflict. Thucydides detailed the effects of messages dispatched during the Peloponnesian War, and "narrative" is frequently...
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Blast from the Past: An Addendum to Nicholas Cull's "'Public Diplomacy'...
image fromCull article atFrom a search for "public diplomacy" in elephind.com. Many thanks to Maristella Feustle for alerting me to this finding aid. [Pls. pardon the imperfections in the entries;...
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Classic Quotable: Ambassador Lincoln Gordon’s pushback against Washington...
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgMonday, September 28th 2015Foreign Service Officers vexed by the micromanagement of Public Diplomacy by Washington will be interested in these comments, made in 1965, on “The...
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Facebook comments on Putin at the UN/CBS interview (JB comment slightly edited)
[A facebook "friend"]: Putin's speech was obviously written by someone afraid to say anything the least bit imaginative. I found it to be full of the usual cliches and a bit tedious. In fact, many...
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US soft power
Lynne Weil, thehill.comimage fromWhat do Fulbright fellows in Kenya, the broadcasts of Radio Free Asia, and the Foreign Press Center near the United Nations have in common? All are facets of U.S....
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Quotable: “Horrified but baffled” by ISIS
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgTuesday, September 29th 2015Last month The New York Review of Bookstook the unusual step of publishing a book review, “The Mystery of ISIS,” by “Anonymous,” identified only as...
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U.S. Turns to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Writer for Anti-ISIS Propaganda
Asawin Suebsaeng, thedailybeast.comimage from articleThe State Department says it’s losing the information war to ISIS—and is tapping HBO, Snapchat, and a screenwriter with deep CIA connections to help...
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Introduction to Public Diplomacy
charhar.china.org.cn, September 29, 2015Introduction to Public Diplomacy First Chinese textbook on public diplomacyTextbook used in nearly 20 colleges and universitiesTraining material for local public...
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Foreign Affairs & Defence Social Affairs: A missed opportunity for V4 to rise...
Frank Markovic, europeanpublicaffairs.euimage from article, with caption: refugeesExcerpt:The traditional consensual nature of the EU’s decision-making has been seriously compromised by the lack of...
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Quotable: Christine Wormuth on the U.S. strategy against ISIL
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgWednesday, September 30th 2015Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth gave testimony before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on “U.S. Military Operations...
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Quotable: Paul Wolfowitz on confidence in democratic progress
publicdiplomacycouncil.orgWednesday, September 30th 2015Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz is now a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. At the beginning of last year he...
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Public Diplomacy (videos)
wallvids.infoWatch Joseph nye: soft power and public diplomacy in the 21st century onlineIn international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is the communication with...
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DFAT & digital diplomacy: In denial and in need of review
Danielle Cave, lowyinterpreter.orgIn 2010 former Lowy Institute research fellow Fergus Hanson published a forward-looking policy brief urging Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)...
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Foreign Ministry's Greatest Fear Realized: The Settlers Are Coming
Behind the campaign against the appointment of settler leader Dani Dayan as ambassador to Brazil lie the fears that the proud nationalists are daring to come out of the sidelines.Israel Harel,...
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